A statue in Garfield Park that commemorates Confederate soldiers who died in Indiana POW camps, Wednesday, August 16, 2017. (Photo: Robert Scheer/IndyStar)

To avoid similar upheaval, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh ordered workers late Tuesday to remove four Confederate monuments. The monuments were gone by 5:30 a.m. Wednesday, the Baltimore Sun reported.

There have been no protests over the Garfield Park monument. It was originally a tombstone marking the mass grave of 1,616 Confederate prisoners of war buried at Greenlawn Cemetery near Kentucky Avenue and South West Street.

They died of sickness and starvation from 1862 to 1865 at the crowded and filthy Camp Morton, near 19th and Alabama streets.

An inscription on the monument reads: “Erected by the United States to mark the burial place of 1,616 Confederate soldiers and sailors who died here while prisoners of war and whose graves cannot now be identified.”

Their names are inscribed on plaques. One was William Blythe, a great-great-grandfather of former President Bill Clinton. Twenty-four of the dead Confederate soldiers were black.

The monument was moved to Garfield Park in 1928. The soldiers' remains were moved to Crown Hill Cemetery, where a new monument marks their graves.

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For some people, this monument could be a painful reminder of soldiers who fought to preserve the institution of slavery, but south-side resident Brian Blevins sees it as a solemn nod to the city's complicated Civil War history.

"This monument is not hurting anything. It's not making a statement," said Blevins, 55, a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans who in 2014 started raising money to restore the worn and stained stone relic.

"All it's doing is remembering the horrors these men went through at Camp Morton."

Blevins' efforts raised about $6,000 of the $41,000 needed for the restoration, Indy Parks spokeswoman Ronnetta Spalding said. The restoration work can not begin until the full $41,000 needed is raised, Spalding said.

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In the hierarchy of offensive monuments to the Confederacy, Indianapolis political commentator Abdul Hakim Shabazz said the Garfield Park memorial barely rates notice.

"It's part of our history. Trying to deny it doesn't make it go away," said Shabazz. "If somebody starts flying a Confederate flag over it, that's one thing. If we're just marking that people died, that this happened, I don't see the big deal."

She noted that although the monument's inscription does not glorify the Confederacy or white supremacy, it was moved to the park at a time when groups like the Ku Klux Klan were active in Indiana politics.

"The monument serves as a painful reminder that slaves were forced to fight for the Confederacy in order to perpetuate their own slavery," she said. "The black soldiers who died at Camp Morton are identified on the monument’s plaques as 'Negro Slave.'"

Lewis said she would be open to leading a conversation regarding the statue's place in Garfield Park.

"The Charlottesville 'Unite the Right' marchers were motivated by bigotry and hate, not history and heritage," Lewis said. "We must not ignore that the purpose of the Confederacy was to preserve slavery.

"Although the Garfield Park monument may be less offensive than others, it still merits a thoughtful and peaceful conversation about whether Garfield Park is the best location for it."